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Great Events from History: Modern Scandals, Second Edition

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Introduction




Contributors




Volume 1



1900s



October 16, 1901: Most Southerners Believe that Booker T. Washington’s Dinner at the White House Is Scandalous


1904: Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting Corporate Funds


January 23, 1904: Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery


December, 1904: Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud


March 2, 1906: Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones Is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children


June 25, 1906: Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White


July 12, 1906: French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason


December 8, 1906: Former U.S. Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover


1907: Elinor Glyn’s Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers


June 13, 1907: San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty of Extortion


November 15, 1908: Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II


1910s



1910: Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul Langevin


March 25, 1911: Nearly 150 Workers Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire


January, 1913: British Prime Minister’s Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading


January 13, 1913: Federal Judge Is Impeached for Profiting from His Office


February 17-March 15, 1913: Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public


May 13, 1913: Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting Prostitution


April 2, 1915: Players Fix Liverpool-Manchester United Soccer Match


May, 1915: British Government Falls Because of Munitions Shortages and Military Setbacks


1919-1920: Ponzi Schemes Are Revealed as Investment Frauds


September 21, 1919: White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in “Black Sox” Scandal


1920s



July 19, 1921: U.S. Senate Rebukes Navy in Homosexuality Investigation


March 26, 1922: Hindemith’s Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun’s Sexual Desires


April 12, 1922: Film Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter


June 22, 1922: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is Accused of Selling Honors


January 18, 1923: Actor Wallace Reid’s Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry


March 2, 1923: U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau Chief for Fraud


May 30, 1923: U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty’s Aide Commits Suicide


October 22, 1923: U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil Leases


May 12, 1924: Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley Is Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act


October 25, 1924: Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British Government


July, 1925: Nosferatu Is Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright


May-June, 1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She Was Kidnapped


December 26, 1926: Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker Are Accused of Fixing Baseball Games


1927: Mae West’s Play About Gays Is Banned on Broadway


1928-1929: Actor Is Suspected of Falsely Claiming to Be an American Indian


March 21, 1928: Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically and Mentally Unfit


June 6, 1929: Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou Shocks Parisian Audience


November, 1929: Banque Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts French Inquiry


1930s



1930: Liberia Is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into Slavery


May, 1930: Postmaster’s Division of Airmail Routes Creates a Scandal


December 3, 1930: Surrealist Film L’Âge D’or Provokes French Rioting


March 30, 1931: “Scottsboro Boys” Are Railroaded Through Rape Trials


1932: Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts New Federal Regulation


July 28, 1932: U.S. Troops Drive World War I Veterans from Washington


March 31, 1933: New York Times Reporter Denies Reports of a Soviet Famine


January 8, 1934-January 17, 1936: Stavisky’s Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government


May 16, 1934: General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper Columnist for Libel


July 10, 1934: Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee


December 16, 1935: Film Star Thelma Todd’s Death Cannot Be Explained


May 20, 1936: British Cabinet Member Resigns After Budget Information Leak


Summer, 1936: Film Star Mary Astor’s Diary Becomes a Public Sensation


December 10, 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée


March 17, 1937: Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco Police Corruption


September-October, 1937: Prescription Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths


October 11-22, 1937: Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany


May 22, 1939: Kansas City’s Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion


1940s



February 19, 1942: President Roosevelt Orders Internment of Japanese Americans


April 22, 1942: French Prime Minister Pierre Laval Wants Germany to Win World War II


December 5, 1942: Industrialist Charles Bedaux Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration


January 14, 1943: Film Star Frances Farmer Is Jailed and Institutionalized


February 23, 1943: Irish Orphan School Fire Kills Thirty-five Girls


April 19, 1945: In a Paternity Lawsuit, a Jury concludes that Actor Charlie Chaplin Is the Biological Father


June 5, 1944: Australian Poets Claim Responsibility for a Literary Hoax


May 9, 1945: Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration


May 26, 1945: Norwegian Writer Knut Hamsun Is Arrested for Treason


August 14, 1945: French War Hero Pétain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration


December 14, 1945: Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason and Institutionalized


Spring, 1947: Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended for Gambling Ties


July 5, 1948: Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison


August 4, 1948: Columnist Drew Pearson Exposes Congressman’s Corruption


August 31, 1948: Film Star Robert Mitchum Is Arrested for Drug Possession


May 27, 1949: Actor Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan After Adulterous Affair


August 26, 1949: Viet Minh Broadcasts French General’s Damaging Report


1950s



January 21, 1950: Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury


February 7, 1950: Swedish Film Star Ingrid Bergman Has a Child Out of Wedlock


February 9, 1950: U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy Launches Communist Witch Hunt


May 3, 1950: U.S. Senate Committee Begins Investigating Organized Crime


January 17, 1951: College Basketball Players Begin Shaving Points for Money


July 16, 1951: Belgium’s Disgraced King Leopold III Abdicates


November 16, 1951: Federal Tax Official Resigns After Accepting Bribes


September 19, 1952: Actor Charles Chaplin Cannot Reenter the United States


September 23, 1952: Richard Nixon Denies Taking Illegal Campaign Contributions


November 21, 1953: Piltdown Man Is Revealed to Be a Hoax


Late 1955: British Atrocities in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion Are Revealed


1956-1962: Prescription Thalidomide Causes Widespread Birth Disorders


March 9, 1956: British Conductor-Composer Is Arrested for Possessing Pornography


June, 1956: George F. Kennan Proves Russian Sisson Documents Are Fakes


June 25, 1956: President Truman’s Appointments Secretary Is Convicted of Tax Conspiracy


April 4, 1958: Actor Lana Turner’s Daughter Kills Turner’s Gangster Lover


September 22, 1958: President Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Resigns for Influence Selling


May, 1959: Teamsters Leader Dave Beck Is Convicted of Tax Fraud


November 2, 1959: Charles Van Doren Admits to Being Fed Answers on Television Quiz Show


1960s



February 7, 1960: President Kennedy’s Romantic Affair Links Him to Organized Crime


February 8, 1960: U.S. Congress Investigates Payola in Pop Music Industry


March 14, 1960: FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer Resigns for Accepting Gifts from Networks


July, 1961: Psychologist Stanley Milgram Begins Obedience-to-Authority Experiments


March 29, 1962: Billie Sol Estes Is Arrested for Corporate Fraud


May 19, 1962: Marilyn Monroe Sings “Happy Birthday, Mr. President”


September 12, 1962: British Civil Servant Is Arrested for Spying


October 26, 1962: West German Police Raid Der Spiegel Magazine Offices


February 23, 1963: Play Accuses Pope Pius XII of Complicity in the Holocaust


March 2-September 25, 1963: John Profumo Affair Rocks British Government


August 14, 1963: Madame Nhu Derides Self-Immolation of Vietnamese Buddhists


October 7, 1963: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Aide Resigns over Crime Connections


March 13, 1964: Kitty Genovese Dies as Her Cries for Help Are Ignored


October 7, 1964: President Lyndon Johnson’s Aide Is Arrested in a Gay-Sex Sting


October 29, 1965: Moroccan Politician Mehdi Ben Barka Disappears in Paris


March 4, 1966: Munsinger Sex and Spy Scandal Rocks Canada


March 1, 1967: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Is Excluded from Congress


June 23, 1967: Senator Thomas J. Dodd Is Censured for Misappropriating Funds


November 28, 1967: Investor Louis Wolfson Is Convicted of Selling Stock Illegally


May 9, 1969: Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas Is Accused of Bribery


July 18, 1969: Senator Edward Kennedy’s Driving Accident Kills Mary Jo Kopechne


Fall, 1969-Winter, 1971: Japanese Baseball Players Are Implicated in Game Fixing


November 13, 1969: American Massacre of Vietnamese Civilians at My Lai Is Revealed


December 30, 1969: United Mine Workers Leader Joseph Yablonski Is Murdered


Volume 2



1970s



May 4, 1970: National Guardsmen Kill Protesting Kent State Students


May 28, 1970: Irish Politicians Are Tried for Conspiring to Import Weapons


June 13, 1971: New York Times Publishes the Pentagon Papers


August 20, 1971: Abusive Role-Playing Ends Stanford Prison Experiment


January 28, 1972: Clifford Irving Admits Faking Howard Hughes Memoirs


June 17, 1972-August 9, 1974: Watergate Break-in Leads to President Nixon’s Resignation


June 22, 1972: Police Arrest Architect John Poulson for Bribery and Fraud


July 8-22, 1972: Jane Fonda’s Visit to North Vietnam Outrages Many Americans


July 25, 1972: Newspaper Breaks Story of Abuses in Tuskegee Syphilis Study


July 31, 1972: Thomas F. Eagleton Withdraws from Vice Presidential Race


October 10, 1973: Spiro T. Agnew Resigns Vice Presidency in Disgrace


February 4, 1974 - September 28, 1975: Kidnapped Heir Patty Hearst Cooperates with a Terrorist Organization


May 20, 1974: French Cardinal Daniélou Dies in a Prostitute’s House


Summer, 1974: Dalkon Shield Contraceptive Is Removed from the Market


October 25, 1974: Evangelist Billy James Hargis Resigns College Presidency During Gay-Sex Scandal


November 20, 1974: British Politician John Stonehouse Fakes His Suicide


February 3, 1975: Honduras’s “Bananagate” Bribery Scandal Leads to Executive’s Suicide


October 31, 1975: Buddhist Teacher Orders His Students to Remove Their Clothes


1976: Peace Corps Conceals Murder of Volunteer in Tonga


1976-1977: U.S. Congress Members Are Implicated in Koreagate Scandal


February 4, 1976: Lockheed Is Implicated in Bribing Foreign Officials


April 4, 1976: West Point Cadets Are Caught Cheating on Exams


May 23, 1976: Washington Post Exposes Congressman Wayne L. Hays’s Affair


October 4, 1976: Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz Resigns After Making Obscene Joke


November 9, 1976: German Generals Must Retire for Supporting a Neo-Nazi Pilot


February 25, 1977: Film Producer David Begelman Is Found to Have Forged Checks


September 21, 1977: Carter Cabinet Member Resigns over Ethics Violations


September 23, 1977: Horse-Swapping Fraud Upsets Belmont Park Raceway


1978: Actor Joan Crawford’s Daughter Publishes Damning Memoir Mommie Dearest


1978: Roots Author Alex Haley Is Sued for Plagiarism


February 1, 1978: Roman Polanski Flees the United States after Raping a 13-Year-Old Girl


June 27, 1978: Evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong Excommunicates His Own Son


July 23, 1978: Utah Millionaire Is Murdered by His Grandson


August 4, 1978: British Politician Jeremy Thorpe Is Charged with Attempted Murder


October 20, 1978: Firestone Recalls Millions of Defective Car Tires


January 26, 1979: Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Dies Mysteriously


April 18, 1979: Actor Lee Marvin Is Ordered to Pay Palimony to Former Lover


June 4, 1979: South African President B. J. Vorster Resigns in Muldergate Scandal


September 26, 1979: Love Canal Residents Sue Chemical Company


October 10, 1979: French President Giscard d’Estaing Is Accused of Taking a Bribe


October 11, 1979: Senate Denounces Herman E. Talmadge for Money Laundering


Nov. 29, 1979, and Jan. 31, 1983: Baseball Commissioner Suspends Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for Casino Ties


1980s



1980: Biographer Claims Actor Errol Flynn Was a Nazi Spy


February 2, 1980: Media Uncover FBI Sting Implicating Dozens of Lawmakers


April 27, 1980: Mobster’s Arrest Reveals Point Shaving by Boston College Basketball Players


Late July, 1980: President’s Brother Billy Carter Registers as a Paid Agent for Libya


July 28, 1980: Magazine Reveals Baseball Star Steve Garvey’s Marital Problems


September 3, 1980: Congressman Bauman Is Arrested for Liaison with Teenage Boy


October 9, 1980: Bendix Executive Resigns amid Rumors of a Sexual Affair


December 7, 1980: Rita Jenrette’s “Diary of a Mad Congresswife” Scandalizes Washington


April 15, 1981: Janet Cooke Admits Fabricating Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Feature


May 23, 1981: Italian Justice Minister Resigns Because of Crime Connection


May 29, 1981: Court finds that Ford ignored Pinto’s Safety Problems


September 10, 1981: Chicago Sun-Times Reports That Cardinal Cody Diverted Church Funds


May 11, 1982: Philippine President Marcos Forces the Entire Supreme Court to Resign


August 6, 1982: Banco Ambrosiano Collapses Amid Criminal Accusations


October 19, 1982: Car Manufacturer John De Lorean Is Arrested in a Drug Sting


December 16, 1982: Congress Cites Environmental Protection Agency Chief for Contempt


April 25, 1983: German Magazine Publishes Faked Hitler Diaries


July 20, 1983: Congress Members Censured in House-Page Sex Scandal


August 12, 1983-July 27, 1990: McMartin Preschool Is Embroiled in Child-Abuse Case


August 21, 1983: Filipino Opposition Leader Aquino Is Assassinated on Return Home


January 25, 1984: Jesse Jackson Calls New York City “Hymietown”


May 2, 1984: E. F. Hutton Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud


July 23, 1984: Vanessa Williams Is the First Miss America to Resign


December 22, 1984: Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz Shoots Four Black Youths


1985-1986: Westland Affair Shakes Prime Minister Thatcher’s Government


May 7, 1985: Banker Jake Butcher Pleads Guilty to Fraud


July 10, 1985: French Secret Service Sinks the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior


August 19, 1985: West German Counterintelligence Chief Defects to East Germany


September 17, 1985: Media Allege Canadian Officials Allowed Sale of Rancid Tuna


October 23, 1985: Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Is Indicted for Immigration Fraud


February 28, 1986: Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth Suspends Players for Cocaine Use


March 3, 1986: Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim’s Nazi Past Is Revealed


April 22, 1986: Faith Healer Peter Popoff Is Exposed as a Fraud


November 13, 1986-May 4, 1989: Iran-Contra Weapons Scandal Taints Reagan’s Administration


January 12 and May 11, 1987: Media Reports Spark Investigation of Australian Police Corruption


February 25, 1987: NCAA Imposes “Death Penalty” on Southern Methodist University Football


March 19, 1987: Jim Bakker Resigns as Head of PTL Television Network


April 9, 1987: Bess Myerson Resigns as New York Commissioner of Cultural Affairs


July 25, 1987: Novelist-Politician Jeffrey Archer Wins Libel Trial Against the Daily Star


September 23, 1987: Plagiarism Charges End Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign


December 1, 1987: Yale Scholar’s Wartime Anti-Semitic Writings Are Revealed


January 15, 1988: ZZZZ Best Founder Is Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges


February 21, 1988: Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery


June, 1988-June, 1989: Insider-Trading Scandal Rocks Japanese Government


September 19, 1988: Stephen Breuning Pleads Guilty to Medical Research Fraud


March 23, 1989: Scientists’ “Cold Fusion” Claims Cannot Be Verified


March 29, 1989: Financier Michael Milken Is Indicted for Racketeering and Fraud


May 31, 1989: Speaker of the House Jim Wright Resigns in Ethics Scandal


August 10, 1989: Japanese Prime Minister Sosuke Resigns After Affair with a Geisha


August 24, 1989: Pete Rose Is Banned from Baseball for Betting on Games


December 3, 1989: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Doctoral-Thesis Plagiarism Is Revealed


December 15-25, 1989: Harassment of a Christian Minister Sparks the Romanian Revolution


December 18, 1989: Prince Charles’s Intimate Phone Conversation with Camilla Parker Bowles Is Taped


1990s



January 18, 1990: Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry Is Arrested for Drug Use


March, 1990: Menendez Brothers Are Arrested for Murdering Their Parents


August 27, 1990: Guinness Four Are Found Guilty of Share-Trading Fraud


November 19, 1990: Lip-Synching Duo Milli Vanilli Lose Grammy Award


April 5, 1991: George W. Bush Is Investigated for Insider Trading


October 11-13, 1991: Justice Clarence Thomas’s Confirmation Hearings Create a Scandal


January 13, 1992: Woody Allen Has Affair with Lover Mia Farrow’s Adopted Daughter


February 1992, ongoing: Historians’ Report on Rape of German Women by World War II Allied Soldiers


April 15, 1992: Hotel Tycoon Leona Helmsley Enters Prison for Tax Evasion


May 6, 1992: Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey’s Romantic Affair Leads to His Resignation


May 19, 1992: Amy Fisher Shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco


June 26, 1992: U.S. Navy Secretary Resigns in the Wake of Tailhook Sexual Assault Scandal


August 23, 1992: Princess Diana’s Phone Conversation with Her Lover Is Made Public


September 24, 1992: British Cabinet Member David Mellor Resigns over Romantic Affair


April 28, 1994: U.S. Naval Academy Expels Midshipmen for Cheating


June 1, 1994: Congressman Dan Rostenkowski Is Indicted in House Post Office Scandal


June 12, 1994: Double Murder Leads to Sensational O. J. Simpson Trial


June 24, 1994: Time Magazine Cover Uses Altered O. J. Simpson Photo


June 30, 1994: Tonya Harding Is Banned from Skating after Attack on Rival


July 1, 1994: Soccer Star Diego Maradona Is Expelled from World Cup


August 5, 1994: Kenneth Starr Is Appointed to the Whitewater Investigation


February 28, 1995: Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas’s Brother Is Arrested for Murder


November 18, 1995: Former Canadian Premier Brian Mulroney Is Exposed in Airbus Scandal


February 4, 1996: Whistle-Blower Reveals Tobacco Industry Corruption


Spring, 1996: Physicist Publishes a Deliberately Fraudulent Article


August 16, 1996: Belgian Media Reveal How Police Bungled Serial Murder Case


November 3, 1996: Car Crash Reveals Depth of Government Corruption in Turkey


January, 1997: Pyramid Investment Schemes Cause Albanian Government to Fall


March 12, 1997: Prize-Winning Aborigine Novelist Revealed as a Fraud


March 24-26, 1997: Heaven’s Gate Cult Members Commit Mass Suicide


May 20, 1997: Air Force Prosecution of Female Officer for Adultery Reveals Double Standard


June 25, 1997: Swiss Banks Admit to Holding Accounts of Holocaust Victims


August 31, 1997: Princess Diana Dies in a Car Crash


November 26, 1997: Canadian Health Commissioner Releases Report on Tainted Blood


December 11, 1997: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros Is Indicted for Lying to Federal Agents


January 17, 1998: President Bill Clinton Denies Sexual Affair with a White House Intern


April, 1998: Scottish Historian Is Charged with Plagiarism


April 7, 1998: Pop Singer George Michael Is Arrested and Fined for Lewd Conduct


May, 1998: Police Corruption Is Revealed in Los Angeles’s Rampart Division


May 11, 1998: Journalist Stephen Glass Is Exposed as a Fraud


December 23, 1998: Prominent Belgians Are Sentenced in Agusta-Dassault Corruption Scandal


March 4, 1999: Quebec Offers Support for Abused Duplessis Orphans


May, 1999: Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Fathers a Child Out of Wedlock


May 7, 1999-March 2, 2001: Ethics Counselor Exonerates Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien


Volume 3



2000s



2000-2018, ongoing: Police Killings of Unarmed African Americans


2000-2018, ongoing: Vladimir Putin Is Accused of Political Power Abuses


January 28, 2000: John Spano Is Sentenced for Fraudulent Purchase


January 31, 2000: Inadequate Maintenance Causes Crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261


May 2, 2000: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Extramarital Affair


May 9, 2000: Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards Is Convicted of Corruption


September, 2000: Scientists Accused of Starting a Measles Epidemic


September 26, 2000: Gymnast Andreea Raducan Loses Her Olympic Gold Medal


November 5, 2000: Japanese Amateur Archaeologist’s “Discoveries” Are Proven Fakes


December, 2000: Sexual Abuse of Children Leads to Outreau Affair


2001: Clearstream Accused of Fraud and Money Laundering


January 30, 2001: Liverpool Children’s Hospital Involved in Body Parts Scandal


February 18, 2001: CIA Agent Robert Hanssen Is Arrested as Russian Spy


April 30, 2001: Washington Intern Chandra Levy Disappears


June 18, 2001: Award-Winning Historian Joseph J. Ellis Is Accused of Lying


June 20, 2001: Mother Kills Her Five Children


June 30, 2001: Korean Teacher Jung Myung Seok Is Charged with Rape


August 27, 2001: Little League Baseball Star Danny Almonte Banned From Game


December 2, 2001: Enron’s Bankruptcy Reveals Massive Financial Fraud


December 14, 2001: Notre Dame Football Coach Falsifies Résumé


January 4, 2002: Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Is Accused of Plagiarism


January 6, 2002: Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests Revealed


January 18, 2002: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Is Accused of Plagiarism


February 11, 2002: Judge Favors Russian Figure Skaters in Winter Olympics


February 17, 2002: Georgia Crematory Mishandles Bodies


June 25, 2002: Adelphia Communications Declares Bankruptcy Amid Corruption


July, 2002: Journalist Alleges Illegal Release of Genetically Modified Corn Seeds


August, 2002: Immunologist Falsifies Research


September 25, 2002: Physicist Jan Hendrik Schön Fakes Research


September 28, 2002: British Politician Reveals Affair with Prime Minister John Major


October 25, 2002: Historian Michael A. Bellesiles Resigns Amid Fraud Accusations


December 5, 2002: Senator Trent Lott Praises Strom Thurmond’s 1948 Presidential Campaign


January 2, 2003: Air Force Academy Sexual Assault Inquiry


March 2, 2003: U.S. National Security Agency Spied on U.N. Officials


April 29, 2003: NYT Reporter Jayson Blair Is Exposed as Fraud


May 21, 2003: Sexually Provocative Film Premieres at Cannes Film Festival


July 1, 2003: Basketball Star Kobe Bryant Is Accused of Rape


July 14, 2003: Columnist Robert Novak Leaks CIA Operative Valerie Plame


September 3, 2003: Mutual Fund Companies Are Implicated in Illegal Trading Practices


October 1, 2003 & June 25, 2009: Strip Search of a Middle School Student Violates Constitution


Early November, 2003: Paris Hilton Sex-Tape Appears on the Web


December 16, 2003: Senator Strom Thurmond’s Biracial Daughter Is Revealed


December 18, 2003-June 13, 2005: Pop Star Michael Jackson Is Prosecuted for Child Molestation


February 1, 2004: Janet Jackson Shocks Spectators during Super Bowl XXXVIII


March 4, 2004: Former United Way Chief Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement


March 5, 2004: Martha Stewart Is Convicted for Insider Trading


March 11, 2004-continuing in 2018: Radical Jihadists Commit Terrorist Attacks in Europe


April 28, 2004-August 30, 2012: CBS Broadcasts Photos of Prisioner Abuse at Abu Ghraib


June 2, 2004: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Dismissed Sexual Harassment Charges


September 8, 2004: 60 Minutes II Reports George W. Bush’s Evasion of Wartime Duty


October 13, 2004: Television Producer Files Sex Harassment Suit Against Bill O’Reilly


October 14, 2004: Insurance Brokerage Charged with Fraud


January 15, 2005: Iqbal Riza Resigns from UN in Oil-for-Food Scandal


January 27, 2005: German Soccer Referee Admits to Fixing Games


March 17, 2005: Baseball Player Mark McGwire Evades Congressional Questions on Steroid Use


June 22, 2005: U.S. Air Force Accused of Religious Intolerance


June 27, 2005: Man Confesses to BTK Murders


July 1, 2005: Congressman Randall Cunningham Accused of Bribery


Beginning August 29, 2005: Government Accused of Inadequate Response to Hurricane Katrina


September 12, 2005: Westar Energy Executives Found Guilty of Looting


September 30, 2005: Danish Newspaper’s Prophet Muhammad Cartoons Stir Violent Protests


November 17, 2005: Liberian Workers Sue Bridgestone Firestone over Slave Labor


December 6, 2005: Spokane Mayor Recalled From Office in Gay-Sex Scandal


January 3, 2006: Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in Indian Lobbying Scandal


February 20, 2006: David Irving Is Sentenced to Prison for Holocaust Denial


March 14, 2006: Duke Lacrosse Players Are Accused of Gang Rape


April 26, 2006: Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Admits Affair with Secretary


May 4, 2006: Media Uncover Match-Fixing in Italian Soccer


May 12, 2006: Scientist Is Indicted for Fake Research on Creating Stem Cells


Summer, 2006-March 16, 2007: Manufacturer Knowingly Contaminates Pet Food


July 14, 2006: NYT Exposes Grading Scandal at Auburn University


July 26, 2006: Tour de France Accused of Doping Scandal


July 28, 2006: Actor Mel Gibson Makes Anti-Semitic Remarks


August 12, 2006: Novelist Günter Grass Admits to Youthful Nazi Ties


September 18, 2006: Newsweek Reveals Hewlett-Packard Spying Scandal


September 29, 2006: Congressman Mark Foley Resigns Amid Sex Scandal


October 22, 2006: Chilean Politicians Use Community Funds for Personal Campaigns


November 2, 2006: Evangelist Kent Hovind Is Convicted of Federal Tax Violations


November 20, 2006: News Corp Abandons Plan to Publish O. J. Simpson’s Book


November 23, 2006: Former Russian Officer Dies from Radiation Poisoning


Early 2007-2009: Subprime Mortgages Trigger a National Financial Crisis


February 18, 2007: Washington Post Exposes Decline of Walter Reed Army Hospital


April 11, 2007: Shock Jock Don Imus Loses Radio Show over Inappropriate Remarks


May 28, 2007: Japanese Politician Commits Suicide After Being Charged with Corruption


June 4, 2007: Congressman William J. Jefferson Is Indicted for Corruption


July 24, 2007: University of Colorado Fires Professor for Plagiarism and Research Falsification


August 20, 2007: Football Star Michael Vick Pleads Guilty to Financing a Dog Fighting Ring


September 13, 2007: New England Patriots Football Team Is Fined for Spying on Other Teams


October 5, 2007: Olympic Champion Marion Jones Admits Steroid Use


October 10, 2007-May 31, 2012: John Edwards Is Accused of Extramarital Affair


March 12, 2008: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns in Prostitution Scandal


March 13-May 31, 2008: Obama’s Presidential Nomination Threatened by Minister’s Political Views


June 13, 2008: Singer R. Kelly Is Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges


July 29, 2008: NBA Referee Is Sentenced to Prison for Betting on Games


September 7, 2008: Unethical Practices Lead to the Collapse of Financial Industry


January 20, 2009-January 20, 2017: The Obama Administration


March 12, 2009: Bernard Madoff Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Investors


November 5, 2009: Muslim-American Army Psychiatrist Goes on Killing Rampage


2010s



April 20, 2010: Deepwater Horizon Negligence Causes the Largest Oil Spill in History


August 17, 2010 and June 27, 2011: Former Governor Rod Blagojevich Found Guilty of 18 Criminal Counts


October 8, 2010: Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize


May 14-18, 2011: Director of IMF Resigns Amid Sexual Assault Accusations


February 26, 2012: George Zimmerman Fatally Shoots Unarmed Black Teenager


June 22, 2012: Penn State Football Coach Jerry Sandusky Found Guilty of Sexual Abuse


July 30, 2012-ongoing in 2018: Saudi Dissident Sentenced to Prison for Liberal Opinions


July 13, 2013-ongoing: Black Lives Matter Movement Protests Police Mistreatment of African Americans


April 21, 2014-2016: Contaminated Water Michigan Endangers Health of Citizens


December 9, 2014: CIA Accused of Using Torture to Interrogate Terrorist Suspects


2015-2018, ongoing: The Trump Administration


2015-2016: Hillary Clinton’s E-mails Controversial in the Presidential Election


June 17, 2015: White Supremacist Murders Nine African Americans


September 2015-2018, ongoing: Volkswagen Guilty of Cheating on Emissions Controls


August 11-12, 2017: White Supremacists and Counter-Protestors Clash in Charlottesville


October 8, 2017: Harvey Weinstein Fired Amid Sexual Misconduct Accusations


February 21, 2018: Takata Declares Bankruptcy after Defective Airbags Scandal


April 26, 2018: Bill Cosby Is Found Guilty of Sexual Assault


July 11, 2018: Chinese Dissident Is Sentenced to Prison for Criticizing Socialist System


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